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The total specific angular momentum j of a galaxy disk is matched with that of its dark matter halo, but the distributions are different, in that there is a lack of both low- and high-j baryons with respect to the CDM predictions. I…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 Sarah M. Sweet , Deanne B. Fisher , Karl Glazebrook , Danail Obreschkow , Claudia D. P. Lagos , Liang Wang

The standard disc formation scenario postulates that disc forms as the gas cools and flows into the centre of the dark matter halo, conserving the specific angular momentum. Major mergers have been shown to be able to destroy or highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 S. E. Pedrosa , P. B. Tissera , M. E. De Rossi

We present a detailed analysis of the specific star formation rate -- stellar mass ($\mathrm{sSFR}-M_*$) of $z\le 0.13$ disk central galaxies using a morphologically selected mass-complete sample ($M_* \ge 10^{9.5} M_{\odot}$). Considering…

The processes are investigated by which gas loses its angular momentum during the protogalactic collapse phase, leading to disk galaxies that are too compact with respect to the observations. High-resolution N-body/SPH simulations in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. D'Onghia , A. Burkert , G. Murante , S. Khochfar

Mergers and the spin of the dark matter halo are factors traditionally believed to determine the morphology of galaxies within a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We study this hypothesis by considering approximately 18,000 central galaxies at $z=0$…

We use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to study the specific angular momentum of galaxies, $j$, with the aims of (i) investigating the physical causes behind the wide range of $j$ at fixed mass and (ii) examining…

The apparent correlation between the specific star formation rate (sSFR) and total stellar mass (M_star) of galaxies is a fundamental relationship indicating how they formed their stellar populations. To attempt to understand this relation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 M. D. Lehnert , W. van Driel , L. Le Tiran , P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood

We perform numerical simulations for the formation of the Galactic stellar halo, based on the currently favored cold dark matter (CDM) theory of galaxy formation. Our numerical models, taking into account both dynamical and chemical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

We present an analysis of the molecular specific angular momentum-mass ($j_{H_2}-M_{H_2}$) relation using a sample of 51 nearby disc galaxies from the PHANGS-ALMA survey with deep, high-resolution molecular gas rotation curves and surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Nikki N. Geesink , Pavel E. Mancera Piña , Claudia del P. Lagos , Mariska Kriek

We use a 64$h^{-1}$Mpc dark matter (DM) only cosmological simulation to examine the large scale orientation of haloes and substructures with respect the cosmic web. A web classification scheme based on the velocity shear tensor is used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Alexander Knebe , Matthias Steinmetz , Stefan Gottlöber , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes

The angular momentum of galaxies is routinely ascribed to a process of tidal torques acting during the early stages of gravitational collapse, and is predicted from the initial mass distribution using second-order perturbation theory and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ben Sugerman , F. J. Summers , Marc Kamionkowski

This paper provides a summary of our recent work on the scaling relations between the specific angular momentum j_* and mass M_* of the stellar parts of normal galaxies of different bulge fraction beta_*. We find that the observations are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-18 S. Michael Fall , Aaron J. Romanowsky

We study the angular momentum profiles both for dark matter and for gas within virialized halos, using a statistical sample of halos drawn from cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. Three simulations have been analyzed, one is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. Chen , Y. P. Jing , Kohji Yoshikawa

We use the IllustrisTNG300-ODM simulation to investigate the spin bias of low-mass halos and its connection to the strong clustering of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) reported by Zhang et al. (2025). By comparing two halo spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-14 Qinglin Ma , Cheng Li , Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo

In this paper we study a stellar dynamic model for the stars' rotational-dynamics, with a distribution of its own mass, rotating around its center with a higher density, like spiral galaxies happen, by means of a classical calculus of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 E. Lopez-Sandoval

Most cosmological structures in the universe spin. Although structures in the universe form on a wide variety of scales from small dwarf galaxies to large super clusters, the generation of angular momentum across these scales is poorly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-14 Peng Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Xi Kang , Quan Guo

We study the spin alignment of galaxies and halos with respect to filaments and walls of the cosmic web, identified with DisPerSE, using the SIMBA simulation from z=0-2. Massive halos' spins are oriented perpendicularly to their closest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Katarina Kraljic , Romeel Dave , Christophe Pichon

Angular momentum evolution in low-mass stars is determined by initial conditions during star formation, stellar structure evolution, and the behaviour of stellar magnetic fields. Here we show that the empirical picture of angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ansgar Reiners , Subhanjoy Mohanty

The relation between properties of galaxies and dark matter halos they reside in can be valuable for structure formation and evolution. This paper focus on the baryonic-to-halo mass ratio (BHMR) and its evolution. We first review unique…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-02 Zhijie Xu

In the standard disk galaxy formation model, the sizes of galactic disks are tightly related to the spin parameters $\lambda$ of their dark matter haloes. The model has been wildly adopted by various semi-analytic galaxy formation models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-13 Hang Yang , Liang Gao , Carlos S. Frenk , Robert J. J. Grand , Qi Guo , Shihong Liao , Shi Shao